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Enlarge this image Odgerel Gamsukh has a started a company to create a green community in the unplanned and polluted sprawl outside of Ulaanbaatar. Katya Cengel for NPR hide caption toggle caption Katya Cengel for NPR It takes the taxi driver three tries to find the neighborhood and at least another three wrong turns on narrow unpaved roads before he locates the company’s front gate….

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Enlarge this image Midwife trainees deliver a baby at the Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan. Stefanie Glinski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stefanie Glinski/AFP/Getty Images For more than 60 years, it has been the standard of care to try to speed up childbirth with drugs, or to perform a cesarean section if labor was seen as progressing too slowly. Now a new set of…